EPISODE · May 27, 2026 · 29 MIN
EP 87: Backup, Control Gaps, and the Real Cost of Agentic AI Actions
from Error Code · host Robert Vamosi
An AI agent wiped out an entire company’s data in just 9 seconds — no hacker, no ransomware involved. Todd Thorsen, Chief Information Security Officer at CrashPlan, explains how a misconfigured AI agent operating without safeguards may have caused the incident — and asks a troubling question: could your organization be next?
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